[alfa] Re: Octane Magazine - was "Great new reading"

[George Graves <gmgraves@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I agree.  I too just picked-up my third issue of Octane and find it 
great. Good writing, great photography, great cars. It and Evo are just 
bout my favorite two car mags (Latest "Evo: is called the "All Italian 
Issue" - well worth picking -up). Also on my list each month are: 
"AutoItalia", "Sports and Classic Cars" as well as "Thoroughbred and 
Classic Cars." All from "Old Blighty" and all great reading. In my 
opinion, American car mags are mostly junk. Somebody gave me a couple 
of old issues (from the early 'sixties) of a "Car & Driver" and a "Road 
and Track." I couldn't get over what great magazines they were in those 
days compared to now. The C&D, for instance had technical articles on 
both the Ford V-8 F1 engine and the BRM F1 "H"-16 with cutaway drawings 
of each, a long retrospective on Alfa Romeo, and a technical evaluation 
and preliminary road test of the the then-new Shelby Cobra. It was a 
real eye opener. Today's R&T and C&D are more SUV and minivan than they 
are sports cars and I guess when much of the world's great sporting 
machinery isn't sold in the USA, it's hard to find enough real content 
for a monthly. Therefore we have to buy Brit to get  the good stuff.

George Graves
'86 GTV-6 3.0 'S'



On Nov 16, 2004, at 9:38 AM, alfa-digest wrote:

>
> Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:15:48 -0800
> From: "Kurt Incledon" <kurt6507@domain.elided>
> Subject: [alfa] Great new reading
>
> Just picked up my third issue of Octane Magazine. Great writing, great
> columnists, (Sterling Moss, David Coulthard, Jay Leno), great articles.
> Sept. issue had a wonderful spread on the Giulietta Spider with some
> pictures of a prototype Bertone version that I'd never seen. Nov. 
> issue has
> a gorgeous spread on the 12C/37 Alfa 4.5L V12 as well as an article on 
> the
> MBZ Silver Arrows of the 50s and a great spread on the MBZ SLR, new 
> and old.
> Euro magazine with wonderful photos and beautifully laid out Well 
> worth the
> $8 US when compared with the dribble that most of the US auto magazines
> carry.
> www.octane-magazine.com
> No affiliation, Blah, Blah. Just interesting reading and beautiful
> photography with some wonderful insights from the people who drove 
> these
> wonderful cars.
> Kurt Incledon
> Dreaming of faster machines then I have.
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